xthexder

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The latency is way better than you’d expect, but still noticeably worse than local. I think if you’ve got a decent connection and Nvidia has a server nearby it’s about the same as 1 extra frame of lag (or playing on a TV without game mode…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually slightly impressed it got both a work program, and a different one than Wikipedia. The Wikipedia one prints “Hello, world.”

  I guess there must be another program floating around the web with “Hello World!”, since there’s no chance the LLM figured it out on its own (it kinda requires specialized algorithms to do anything)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Malbolge is a fun one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By the looks of it you’ve got enough time to be commenting about not watching the video. I’d question wether you actually have better things to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I’m happy they picked this as a default “car doesn’t know what to do” scenario. From what I’ve seen Tesla’s default is to just ignore the unknown thing, they I wouldn’t be surprised if Robotaxis would have just treated all the blank lights as green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, good news, the source code is right there. Someone can go check (it probably won’t be me)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s actually quite elegant. No matter what it has to skip over argument 0 which will be the executable name echo.
  If the subtraction was removed and the loop changed to <, it would then need to do an addition or subtraction inside the loop to check if it’s the last argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello World in 1974: echo.c

  main(argc, argv)
  int argc;
  char *argv[];
  {
  	int i;
  
  	argc--;
  	for(i=1; i<=argc; i++)
  		printf("%s%c", argv[i], i==argc? '\n': ' ');
  }
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I downloaded the tarball and had a look through it. Almost everything has source code included, which is pretty cool to see.

  There’s an entire C compiler from 1972, bootstrapped to be written in C. There was also a SNOBOL III compiler written in C, and some Fortran stuff.

  Unsurprisingly grep was written in assembly, but it’s source is there.

  There’s also a games folder, but unfortunately these look like they’re just binaries: bj, chess, cubic, moo, ttt, wump I’ll have to load up a pdp11 emulator later to see what they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d actually be genuinely curious to see how it compares to taxi drivers, bus drivers, or ubers. Since they drive professionally, you’d hope they’d drive a bit safer than the average human.

  I’m sure nothing will be able to complete with the safety numbers of trains or just being close enough to walk though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where…

  You get the idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just spent $200 on a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB :/

  I’m finally swapping my main PC to Linux full time and ended up buying an entire new boot drive rather than dealing with shuffling files around to make space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d need to set up a firewall rule on your router to block that device from accessing the internet. If you’ve got a fancy enough router you could set up a VLAN and second SSID for all your IoT things and only whitelist connections and devices you want to allow. That can get a little tricky to set up though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage

  Lol, this is news? Where have they been the last 15 years?

  In other news, the sky is blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Call it survivorship/selection bias if you want, but basically every hack I’ve been exposed to is from centralized servers getting exploited that server millions of people. Plex, along with any other public facing service with lots of users, receives targeted attacks constantly. All my server receives is automated bots looking for 10-year-old Wordpress .php exploits (I don’t even run php on my server).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m not really worried about it. I changed my password and moved on. It’s just that hackers have every reason to try and exploit Plex, while individual servers are hardly worth someone’s time and effort to go after when the payoff is maybe 1-2 usernames and emails

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a static IP, or dynamic DNS set up, you can set up your own remote access with a reverse proxy like nginx. The nice thing is I get to use my own SSL certificate and all the actual streaming goes directly to my server, not through their proxies.

  The only “hacky” part about it is that the Admin dashboard shows “Not available outside your network”, even though everything works perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The security thing is ironic because my personal Jellyfin server (nor anything else on it) has been hacked, but Plex itself has had their database leaked recently. It’s actually the main reason I switched because I don’t like their auth servers being a giant common target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So there’s this thing called a Fourier series…

  Basically any wave can be created by adding together individual frequencies, and with some fancy math it’s possible to go the other way with a Fourier transform and get how loud every frequency is (like is displayed in a spectrogram).

  I think the real black magic is in how our ears and brains can decode the mess of information coming in and identify meaningful patterns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies should already be storing password hashes, so the risk of leaking a hash vs a public key is roughly the same. It’s just that private keys are generally longer than passwords and therefore harder to bruitforce.

  Any company storing passwords in a recoverable format deserves to be hacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of adoption doesn’t really make password managers a workaround. What’s being worked around? People’s laziness?

  Password managers actually do solve the phishing problem to an extent, since if you’re using it properly, you’ll have a unique password for every service, limiting the scope of the problem.

  Putting TOTP 2fa codes in your password manager behind the same password as everything else actually destroys any additional security added by 2fa, since it puts you back to a single auth factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, that print has more creases on it than a homework assignment that’s spent all day in my backpack

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In an ideal world, there’s enough CSS/JS inlined in the HTML that the page layout is consistent and usable without secondary requests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There might be some CAT6 cable inside somewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems necessary if they’re to maintain an IP ban list. You shouldn’t just be able to unban yourself by submitting an information deletion request.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’re about to solder it on “dead-bug” style? lol

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ground-source heat pumps seem like they could be the new hotness. You don’t have to dig very deep before the ground is a constant temperature, so that can be used to increase the efficiency even further in extremely hot/cold weather.

  Tech Ingredients did a nice little DIY experiment with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I take my coffee black-hole seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TCP will generally send up to 10 packets immediately without waiting for the ACKs (depending on the configured window size).

  Generally any messages or websites under 14kb will be transmitted in a single round-trip assuming no packets are dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s an order of magnitude less force than the “server room” experienced, considering the whole rack of computers was compressed into a solid mass.

  SanDisk SD cards are actually rated for up to 500Gs, and with how light the SD card is, it can survive these indirect impacts more easily. “1000s of Gs” is just a completely random estimate considering how some of the other heavier internal camera parts were damaged (a circuit board connector sheared off).